The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “…more people look for salvation through relationship than in houses of worship. One may even suggest that romantic love has replaced institutional religion as the greatest motive power… Read More ›
Philosophy
Do we Need God? – The Loss of God and the Decay of Society
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that… Read More ›
The Profound Meaning of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
After Skool In this episode we explore Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, its connection to ancient myths, and the ultimate narrative archetype we know as the Hero’s Journey. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is one of the most influential philosophical… Read More ›
What has Gotten into Our Minds? The Psychosis of the Modern World & the Search for the Self
By Kingsley Dennis | New Dawn Magazine There’s something fundamentally wrong with how the world is right now. Don’t you see it – feel it? We are a species with noble character, with a great spirit, and with a sacred… Read More ›
The Psychology of Malignant Narcissists – People of the Lie
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Evil is not committed by people who feel uncertain about their righteousness, who question their own motives, who worry about betraying themselves. The evil in this world is… Read More ›
Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Tyranny
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “And the word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.” Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly… Read More ›
Why Absent Fathers Harm Children and Ruin Society
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Fatherlessness is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society. It is also the engine driving our most urgent social problems…Yet, despite its scale and social… Read More ›
Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. . .If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If… Read More ›
The Psychology of Psychopaths – Predators who Walk Among Us
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Human predators populate our society.”  Stefan Verstappen, Defense Against the Psychopath Psychopaths are human predators. They coerce, manipulate, lie, steal, defraud, abuse, and take life, without feeling… Read More ›
Carl Jung and the Psychology of Dreams – Messages from the Unconscious
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “We also live in our dreams, we do not live only by day. Sometimes we accomplish our greatest deeds in dreams.” Carl Jung, The Red Book Are dreams… Read More ›
How to Stop Being a Slave to the Opinions of Other People
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Most people can never, even for a moment, disentangle themselves from the restraints imposed by those around them, nor can they disregard their approval. From the moment they… Read More ›
Face Your Dark Side – Carl Jung and the Shadow
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.” Carl Jung, The… Read More ›
Can Decentralization Save Humanity? – Why Smaller is Better in Politics
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “…the world would be most happily governed if it consisted not of a few aggregations…with their accompaniments of despotism and tyrannic rule, but of a society of small… Read More ›
Why are so Many People Neurotic?
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “There are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal. That it… Read More ›
Disconnected from Reality: How Smartphones and Social Media Promote a Schizophrenic-Like Condition
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “I am body entirely, and nothing beside.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Many people spend more time staring at screens, than interacting with the real world. Hour-upon-hour, day-after-day,… Read More ›
The Psychology of Heroism
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “We need a great rebirth of the heroic in our world. Every sector of human society, wherever that may be on the planet, seems to be slipping into… Read More ›
Why You Should Seek Power to Express Yourself, Not Happiness
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “…not increase of consciousness is the goal, but enhancement of power.”  Nietzsche, The Will to Power In the quest to live a good life, each of us,… Read More ›
Technocracy and Totalitarianism
By Aaron KheriatyAaron Kheriaty | Substack The Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce, who came of age in the 1930s and observed with horror the emergence of Mussolini’s Fascist regime in his native country, warned that “the widespread notion that the… Read More ›
Nietzsche and Nihilism – A Warning to the West
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas In 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come… Read More ›
To Stop Totalitarianism, We Must Understand How It Weaponizes Loneliness
Some people are lonely even if they have a partner…~TS Victory in the war against tyranny depends more than anything else on understanding how imposed loneliness works on our psyches. By Stella Morabito | The Federalist The following is an… Read More ›
Will Civilization Collapse?
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that… your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down… Read More ›
Fiat Money and the Covid Regime: Actually Existing Postmodernism
By Michael Esfeld | Brownstone Institute What do the unlimited creation of fiat money and the corona regime have in common? Obviously, the former is the precondition for the latter: without the possibility for governments to arbitrarily create money out… Read More ›
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By Mattias Desmet | Substack At the end of February 2020, the global village began to shake on its foundations. The world was presented with a foreboding crisis, the consequences of which were incalculable. In a matter of weeks, everyone was gripped… Read More ›
How to Stop Wasting Your Life – Carl Jung as Therapist
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.”  Carl Jung, Practice of… Read More ›
The Madness of Groupthink
“Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.” ~ Fredrich Nietzsche By Robert Malone | The Brownstone Institute We all seek to understand the root causes of the COVIDcrisis. We crave an answer, and hope is that… Read More ›
Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “Humanity is arming itself, in dread and fascinated horror, for a stupendous crime.” Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious While we cannot create a heaven on earth,… Read More ›
Why Suffering can Promote Strength and Health
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas “The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far?”  Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond… Read More ›
How to Stop Being a Coward
The following is a transcript of this video. By Academy of Ideas In our age of anxiety and victimhood, courage is a trait that many of us sorely lack. For who among us could not create a long list of… Read More ›